Do Not Cause Another to Stumble

^13 (A)Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide ^(B)never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

^11 (A)Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.^[a] The one who speaks against a brother or ^(B)judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

³ We ^(A)put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,

Settle with Your Accuser

⁵⁷ “And why ^(A)do you not judge ^(B)for yourselves what is right?

^32 (A)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to ^(B)the church of God,

⁹ But take care ^(A)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block ^(B)to the weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating^[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,^[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And so by your knowledge this weak person is ^(C)destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. ¹² Thus, sinning against your brothers^[c] and ^(D)wounding their conscience when it is weak, ^(E)you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(F)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Final Instructions and Greetings

¹⁷ I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles ^(A)contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; ^(B)avoid them.

^4 (A)Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master^[a] that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

^2 (A)It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.^[a]